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BIPOC Wilderness Walk: Berries!

Location:

Discovery Park - Duwamish Territory (Seattle)

Summer berries are ripe! A wilderness walk focused on native berries, plant recognition, and indigenous food culture. Relational. Land-based. Politicized πŸ’πŸ“πŸ«

As always, this is a container to honor land, connect, and expand towards justice and wellness for all.

BONUS: On the same day, the Indian Days Powwow will be taking place at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center. You'll have the option to swing through and join the celebration after our walk

A safe space for QTBIPOC and queer folks to come walk with us, especially if this is your first Trillium event.

For culture healing through relational learning and orienting ourselves as part of the natural world 🌍. A politicized container to weave power and address systemic injustice.

As always, this is a container to honor land, heal culture, connect, and expand towards justice and wellness for all.


I offer these walks in the greater context of engaging with the today’s crises: climate, ecological, and human people.
In our urban lives, hypnotized by modern culture, we are disconnected from what truly nurtures us. How can we care and prioritize something, someone from whom we are disconnected?

Wilderness is not only a place β€œout there, far from here”.
Wilderness is everywhere. In us, around us, and on a downtown concrete block.
When we got confused about how we are part and not apart, the destruction began.
The wilderness of our towns and cities diminished.
We have been blessed with the ability to witness this wilderness and be in choice about how to connect and nurture it.


We gather and immerse ourselves in the embrace of nature. To give our loving attention. To experience life a little deeper, a little slower. We invite our inner children out with their curiosity and play. We do it with intention and with others who also want to tune in to our source. This is an act of mutual healingπŸ’šβœ¨


This container is also political. We see healing and reconnecting with nature as a radical act of resistance. To bring awareness to this ultimate source of sustenance and to the forces that exploit and destroy it. Our work is to recognize that the struggle for protecting Mother Earth is inseparable from the struggle for liberation.

The walks will flow in pace and activities based on the moods of the group, the season, and the land.

  • Recognition practice: plants, birds, and mushrooms

  • Storytelling

  • Forest bathing and mindfulness practice

  • Ecology, climate, and sustainability conversations

Participation contribution:

Sliding scale from $0 to $75.
(Limited to 15 participants)


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